“
There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.
”
― Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation (light novel)
― Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation (light novel)
“
My mother had raised me on a thousand stories of girls who were saved by the Djinn, princesses rescued from towers, peasant girls rescued from poverty.
Turned out, stories were just stories.
I was on my own.
”
― Traitor to the Throne
― Traitor to the Throne